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NATATORES. 



COLYMBID^E. 



COLYMBID^E. 



THE GREAT-CRESTED GREBE. 

 Podiceps cristatus. 



Podiceps cristatus. Great-crested Gre 



tippet 



, crested 



urinator, 

 cristatus, 



tippet 

 crested 



Grebe huppe, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 130. 

 134. 



MONTAGU. Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 161. 



v 163 - 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 131. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 394. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 251. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ix. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol ii. p. 7 17. 



PODICEPS. Generic Characters. Bill of moderate length, straight, hard, 

 slightly compressed, pointed, forming an elongated cone. Nostrils lateral, con- 

 cave, oblong, open in front and perforate, closed behind by a membrane. Legs 

 and feet long, attached behind the centre of gravity ; tarsi very much compressed ; 

 three toes in front, one behind ; anterior toes very much flattened, united at the 

 base, surrounded by an extended membrane ; hind toe also flattened, articulated 

 on the inner surface of the tarsus ; claws large, flat. No true tail. Wings 

 short, first three primaries nearly equal in length, and the longest in the wing. 



